Word: doling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Election Day will end months of campaigning, not only by the candidates but also by a pursuing army of some 200 reporters (see THE PRESS). To represent TIME, Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart assigned two teams of Washington staffers: Dean Fischer, Strobe Talbott and Christopher Ogden to the Ford-Dole campaign; Stanley Cloud, Bonnie Angelo and John F. Stacks to Carter-Mondale-and sometimes the correspondents have switched from one campaign to the other to get a fresh perspective. For this week's issue, both candidates gave exclusive interviews to TIME (see THE NATION...
...NATO to Secretary of Defense (Donald Rumsfeld). Two were in the running for the G.O.P. vice-presidential nomination until the final cut (Governors Christopher Bond of Missouri and Robert Ray of Iowa); another (Federal Trade Commissioner Elizabeth Hanford) last December married the man who finally got the nod, Robert Dole...
...Well then," Gerry Joe gasped, "I can at least dole out a few lumps to "Fritz" Cozza. There's no reason why he should be able to get half of the title. I'll split that ticket if it's the last thing...
...Walter F. Mondale (D-Minn.) helped his ticket more than Sen. Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) did his. Dole's comments in the vice-presidential debates on World War II being a "Democrat" war hurt, as did a more general perception of Dole as a politician in the sinister Nixon mode. Mondale also aided Carter in carrying Wisconsin and Minnesota...
...selective Government job programs-subsidies for companies to hire the unemployed, a plan like the old CCC to put jobless youths to work on urban clean-up and build-up projects, and the like. He argues that the programs would ultimately pay for themselves by getting people off the dole and turning them into productive taxpayers. Remembering that such schemes did not dent unemployment much during the 1960s, some of his advisers are skeptical. Still, others think they can avoid the pitfalls by focusing their efforts on people who have at least basic literacy and the competence to hold...